You sample space is to small.  You can't say if Samsung is better then IBM
because you've only tested one or two of each type.

Kind of  like tossing a coin once.  You conclude that "the Nickel landed
tails up but my dime landed heads up.  So if you prefer heads I'd say you
should use dimes."

Seriously.  Remember that statistics class where they talked about
confidence levels?  You to need to test hundreds of drives before you can
say anything about their reliability.

But we can read about tests of thousand of hard disk drives.  Backblaze
owns and uses about 10,000 disk drives in their data center and publish
what they find every quarter.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q1-2017/

Backblaze is not yet using SSDs but  today almost all web hosting companies
are using SSD.   But I can't find published data,



On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Chris Albertson <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Kurt Jacobson <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> Interesting John. What ThinkPad do you have? I have had a couple of the
>> 128gb SSDs in our T410s fail, some after less than a year. I have been
>> replacing them with Samsung or Kingston SSDs. I have not had problems
with
>> either. The original were Intel, which I would think would be decent,
but I
>> guess not.
-- 

Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California
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